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Florida
Studying Potential Effects of Climate Change on Rare Plant Populations
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Successful In Vitro Initiation: Taxus floridana
showing new axillary buds in a test tube on June 12, 46 days after inoculation. […]
Florida Milkvetch In Flower
The light purple flowers of the Florida Milkvetch grow in tiny clusters at the tip of the stems. The leaf arrangement is opposite and the leaves are shaped like tiny hearts. Many of these clusters were no bigger than two hands side-by-side. […]
Safeguarding the Rare Plants of the Sunshine State
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Florida Yew Makes The Cut
 floridana, C, these cuttings will be used to establish propagation protocols, following ABG\’s successful methods for close relative […]
What Are You Willing To Sacrifice?
At the ABG Conservation Seed Bank, a few freshly harvested seeds of Florida Yew (Taxus floridana) were sacrificed, having their characteristic fleshly red cup (aril)Â removed before weighing and drying to determine the average moisture content. This value will be used to desiccate remaining seeds to a moisture content of precisely 4-7% before entering a germination […]
Not An Early Riser
West’s Flax (Linum westii Rogers) has adorable little yellow flowers that only open in the evening so surveys are best done in the afternoon, perfect for folks who are not early risers. […]
Paper-like Whitlow-wort – Enjoy It While It Lasts
Paronychia chartacea var. minima) in full bloom along the margin of a karst lake, formed by the collapse of a cave. […]
Pinewoods Aster In the Bag
Eurybia spinulosa […]
Small but Mighty Pinewoods Aster
Eurybia spinulosa in flower during the site assessment in early August. […]
Baker’s Tickseed
Coreopsis bakeri, Baker’s tickseed, flower with a tumbling flower beetle (Family: Mordellidae) visitor. […]
National Collection Spotlight: Florida Scrub Bluecurls
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Details of Hairy-peduncled Beakrush
Collected seeds of a single maternal line of Rhynchospora crinipes as seen through the microscope’s lens, […]
Liatris gholsonii in full bloom
Liatris gholsonii in flower during the initial Site Assessment to estimate from how many maternal lines seeds will be collected at the time of Seed Collection. […]
DNA Banking Gholson’s Blazingstar
Atlanta Botanical Garden Field Biologist Cami Adams prepares to collect a DNA leaf sample parallel to the maternal line seed collected of Liatris gholsonii. […]
Gholson’s blazingstar in bud
Gholson’s blazingstar in bud […]
Rhynchospora crinipes Up Close
Under the microscope is seen a reference specimen from the University of West Florida herbarium to confirm the characteristic morphology of Rhynchospora crinipes. […]
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